Summer vacation has arrived, and the mythical beasts have returned home. Various holiday study plans are overwhelming on the Internet, and many children and parents are either making or executing study plans. As the saying goes, "You are not afraid of your deskmate being a top student, but you are afraid of your deskmate spending the summer vacation." The study plans on the Internet are more detailed and more substantial than the last. In addition to cultural classes, there are also artistic specialties, etc., and the time arrangements are accurate to the minute. It gives people a full sense of suffocation (pictured below).

The famous educator Mr. Tao Xingzhi once said: "Life is education, society is school."

"The World is Our Classroom", the author is the founder of Juvenile Business School Zhang Hua’s educational philosophy coincides with the above-mentioned views of Mr. Tao Xingzhi and is of the same origin. He has always adhered to the teaching vision of "making the world a child's classroom". After more than ten years of research and practice, he wrote this "Book of the Future", which proposed eight major abilities and characters for children to face the future, that is, to be effective Root's "global citizenship", reading and expression skills, information technology and mathematical skills, adaptability and exploration, analysis and creativity, leadership and teamwork, mental habits, kindness and honesty, and provides detailed strategies Suggestions and practical paths. In this book, the educational philosophy advocated by Zhang Hua from beginning to end is to focus on children’s global literacy and all-round development. Personally, I think the core concept throughout the book is that education should leave blank spaces.

I once saw a sentence: "On the chessboard, black and white, virtual and real, and just the right blank space will give people unlimited space for imagination, and the same is true for education."

" "Blank space" is a technique of Chinese landscape painting. The artist leaves appropriate white space based on ingenious conception, so that the beauty of the vastness of the sky can be extended from the small space of the painting paper. The greatest value of "blank space" lies in leaving the viewer the greatest space for imagination. It is in the artistic conception of blank space that viewers experience the freedom of thought, activate their creative impulse, and feel their own dignity. This is also the artistic charm of "blank space". In fact, not only painting requires blank space, but education also requires blank space.

As the name suggests, blank space in education refers to giving children the opportunity to make their own choices and arrangements, so that they can have independent space.

Leave a blank space in your life and take care of yourself in order to be self-reliant.

I saw a piece of news on the Internet before: On the first day of school, more than 400 first-grade children of a primary school in Ningbo had lunch in the school cafeteria. There was a shrimp dish in the menu that day, but it was such a homely dish. Many children are dumbfounded because they can’t eat the vegetables. Some children can only lick them and then give up... Ask the children why they can’t eat them. The answer is because their family members peel them off at home. Son, they only need to be responsible for eating, they don't know how to peel shrimps at all.

Many parents take over all the affairs of their children in their daily lives and do not let their children do any housework. They say they want their children to have more free time so that they can concentrate on their studies. This type of parent is completely unaware that what they are doing is actually doting on their children. As everyone knows, when a child's growth space is compressed into learning, there will naturally be no opportunities to practice life skills, which will have a negative impact on the child's future. This is why children with high scores and low abilities are common nowadays.

"The primary task of educating children is not to give, but to promote independence." If they want their children to become independent people, parents must learn to let go and insist that their children "do their own things." Children can grow up healthier.

Learn to leave blank space and be free to be more self-disciplined.

Many parents have this confusion: Why do other people’s children not need to be controlled by their parents, but they can learn on their own initiative and have very good academic performance; but their own children are worried about them all day long and always get into trouble. What if they can’t learn well? If you don't keep an eye on it, many problems will occur: not doing your homework well, getting poor grades, being a troublemaker, being complained by the teacher...

In fact, the reason is very simple, parents give their children too little freedom!

Many parents now have educational anxiety. This anxiety comes from our too single standard for judging children's success or excellence. Under this single evaluation system of "score theory", the phenomenon of educational involution and "competition with chickens" has arisen. In fact, there are many roads to success. If parents can evaluate their children in a more diverse way, they will not follow others' opinions and there will not be so much educational anxiety. Moreover, appropriate blank space will enhance children's independent learning ability and improve learning results.

Freedom is the driving force for self-discipline. It is human nature to be curious about the outside world, love to learn and explore. As long as parents fully trust their children and give them real freedom, their children will learn independently. Because, after children receive full trust, their inner self-affirmation ability will be stronger, they will explore freely, and maintain strong curiosity and interest in learning. From this point of view, the more freedom, the more self-discipline.

Teacher Yin Jianli, a well-known educator, said: "Freedom is the most cherished thing in everyone's heart, and children should stretch their nature." She has practiced this through her personal experience in educating her daughter Yuanyuan. In the first week of Yuanyuan Elementary School, Yin Jianli began to accompany Yuanyuan in doing homework and establishing basic rules. But starting from the second week, I talked to Yuanyuan and told her that homework was her own business and that her mother would no longer be involved. One time Yuanyuan went home and was eating and playing.

Before going to bed, she remembered that she had not done her homework. Yin Jiuli comforted her child and said, Mom sometimes forgets to do something. If you don’t want to, then we won’t do the homework today. The child chose to write now before going to bed, so mom and dad went to bed, and the child finished his homework until 12 o'clock. After repeated forgetting several times, the children developed the habit of arranging their time after school reasonably.

The tighter you squeeze the sand, the less will be left. The same goes for educating children. Instead of constantly restricting children and letting them grow up in other disciplines, it is better to give children freedom appropriately and let them learn self-discipline in practice.

The "inaction" mentioned here is a kind of "blank space".

This is essentially "blank space" in education.

A child is like a piece of pure white paper. The wonderful pictures on it should be written and painted by him. Parents can at most be the person who hands the painting tools to the child, but cannot replace it. The child fills his life picture with his own colors.

Life needs freedom and education needs blank space.